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| <p>Note that for this particular type of cast, alignment isn’t a factor. The |
| input value is semantically copied into the function and then returned to a |
| new memory location which will have whatever the required alignment of the |
| output type is.</p> |
| <h3 id="failure"><a href="#failure">Failure</a></h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>If the types don’t have the same size this fails.</li> |
| </ul> |
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